Reviewing Academic Essays

In English class today, we went over how to format academic essays for the third time this trimester. First, the introduction should always have a hook, background, and a thesis with the three claims that become your body paragraphs later on. For the third time, our teacher explained that our strongest points should come first and last. Within those body paragraphs, our first and third evidence should be the most persuasive. Also, they should all be wrapped up with a concluding sentence. Mr. Paterson, again, went over the two ways of writing it. One pattern is to just restate the claim, and the second way is to restate the claim with a simple summary of your three points. Throughout our essay, he said that we should try to balance the use of these two. It would be a good idea to ask our teammates about which suits our paragraphs to improve the writing. In addition, our conclusion should be written in the order of a summary (with our three claims), conclusion, and a limitation / CFFR. Many students tend to forget the limitation. In it, we must state what we couldn't do. For example, if the paper was about politics, we should mention that we only have sources that are publicly available. Lastly, we should make sure that the title matches what we're doing in the paper. With all of this in minnd, I'd like to keep perfecting mine and my groupmates' essays.